Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-kicking hoofer, Shirley MacLaine put her foot in a strange place last week. Her mouth. After a sellout tour through Europe with her song-and-dance revue, MacLaine was booked into the Palace Theater for her first Broadway stage appearance since The Pajama Game 22 years ago. How nice to be back in "the Karen Quinlan of cities," said Shirley, comparing the life expectancy of New York with that of the young New Jersey woman, whose tragic yearlong coma stirred a lingering right-to-life court battle. MacLaine's audience, including Jackie Onassis and Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
...genial flamboyance is gone. Success has made Walker a little more easygoing, a little less mean. He no longer spits at the respectable people, as he did in the liner notes of his first major album, Jerry Jeff Walker. Describing two people who were the subject of one song, "Curly and Lil," he wrote, "Their warmth, independence, and self-respect prove to all those pussys who had to 'think of the kids and the old lady' that people can do what they want to decently...
Walker's own composition, "I Love You," starts out as a fairly straightforward song, but ends up on a different note...
...only other song written by Walker is a bizarre number called "Pissin' in the Wind," which starts out parodying Kris Kristofferson, proceeds to self-parody, tosses in a few jokes about Walker's music buddies Guy Clark and Gary Nunn, and ends by poking fun at the folk singers of the sixties: "The answer my friend is just pissin' in the wind." It's pretty self-indulgent and not as funny as Walker would like to think...
...MORE SERIOUS SONGS on the album are a little more even in quality. He gives a plaintive and evocative rendition of Jessie Winchester's "Mississippi You're on My Mind", a song which is all the more moving because Winchester is an exile in Canada, having left the U.S. to avoid the draft. The rich images he paints are those of someone who will never see his home again...